From the ArcaMax Publishing, Health & Fitness Newsletter:
http://www.arcamax.com/news/healthtips/s-388629-888973
COLUMBIA, Mo. (UPI) -- Media reports have described an "exercise pill"
that may end the need for exercise, but U.S. researchers say this may
not eliminate the need.
Frank Booth, a University of Missouri expert on inactivity, says the
exercise pill study did not test all of the commonly known benefits of
exercise and taking the pill cannot be considered a replacement for
exercise.
Booth cautions that some of the commonly known benefits of exercise
not tested in the paper on the exercise pill include:
-- Decreased resting and sub-maximal exercise heart rate.
-- Increased heart stroke volume at all exercise work loads.
-- Increased maximal exercise cardiac output.
-- Lower blood pressure and arterial stiffness.
-- Increased aerobic capacity.
In addition, the risk of chronic disease is reduced by lifelong
physical inactivity including: coronary artery disease risk is
decreases by 45 percent, stroke risk is decreased risk by 60 percent,
hypertension risk is decreased by 30 percent, osteoporosis risk is
decreased risk by 59 percent, type 2 diabetes is decreased risk by 50
percent and colon cancer is decreased by 41 percent.